CRANBERRY FRUITWORM CONTROL, 2004

Activity of broad-spectrum and reduced-risk insecticides on various life stages of cranberry fruitworm (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in highbush blueberry.

Laboratory and semifield bioassays were conducted to determine the life-stage activity of insecticides for controlling cranberry fruitworm, Acrobasis vaccinii Riley (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), a key lepidopteran pest of highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum L. The organophosphates azinphosmethyl and phosmet, the pyrethroid esfenvalerate, and the carbamate methomyl were lethal to all life stage...

Exploring host-associated differentiation in the North American native cranberry fruitworm, Acrobasis vaccinii, from blueberries and cranberries

The factors explaining host-associated differentiation (HAD) have not yet been fully characterized, especially in agricultural systems. It is thought that certain characteristics within a system may increase the probability for HAD to occur. These characteristics include relatively long-standing evolutionary relationships between insects and their host plants, endophagy, and allochrony in host-...

Developing Integrated Fruitworm Control Strategies for Blueberry in Preparation for Pesticide Restrictions

To prevent infestation of highbush blueberries by fruitworms, growers employ pheromone-baited traps to monitor adult moths and apply insecticides to fields at risk from infestation by the larvae of these pests. However, there are increasing restrictions on availability of broad-spectrum insecticides and monitoring traps have not been used to predict optimal timing of controls for these species ...

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Cranberry Words in Formal Grammar

We will provide a formal account of cranberry words in German within the framework of HPSG. Cranberry words only occur in a very restricted set of linguistic environments but behave as any other word would in these environments. We will show that the distribution of these words can neither be reduced to constructions nor to selection. Therefore, a formal theory of distribution and collocations ...